Patterned after the classic Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, this series of five volumes will the most comprehensive work on the military aspects of the Indian Wars in the West. The author will gather a wide variety of first-person accounts that are not generally available elsewhere, relying primarily on unpublished manuscript accounts and contemporaneous newspaper articles. Each article covering an event or battle will be placed within its context, with background information on the author of the article, a historical introduction evaluating the article's accuracy and significance, and a "for further reading" list of sources.
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Prolific author Cozzens (The Civil War in the West) has assembled a collection of contemporaneous accounts of the military campaigns against the Apache Indians in the American Southwest in this first of five volumes about the Indian Wars. The materials include army reports, diaries of participants, periodical articles, and newspaper accounts. All were selected on the basis of the writers' involvement and their lack of easy availability elsewhere. The result is a comprehensive, albeit disjointed, account of the Apache Wars. Background information on the people and events is adequate, and references for additional reading are given. Lacking are maps designed to orient the reader to the various campaigns, and some of the editorial notes would have been more useful had they been included in the text. These criticisms aside, this is a well-conceived publication for expanding our understanding of the Indian Wars, with its emphasis on hard-to-locate accounts. For larger libraries needing information on the topic. Edward Gibson, Langston Hughes Memorial Lib., Lincoln Univ., PA
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
About the Author
Peter Cozzens is the author of several books on the Civil War and Western history, including The Civil War in the West and No Better Place to Die: The Battle of Stones River. He has written numerous articles, and edited or co-edited several other books, including The Military Memoirs of General John Pope. Stackpole Books
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This marvelous book can safely be said to be the last word on the Apache Wars. The breadth and scope of the original accounts presented here - most drawn from obscure 19th Century sources - is remarkable. There are newspaper interviews with General George Crook, an account of the Chiricahua Apaches in captivity by Walter Reed (for whom Walter Reed Hospital is named), a visit with Cochise in his mountain stronghold by the teritorial governor of Arizona, and many, many more "you are there" accounts. Cozzens opens the work with an excellent historical overview of the Apache Wars. Indispensable to the Indian Wars affecionado!
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Like the other books in this series, "The Struggle for Appacheria" is a well chosen collection of contemporary accounts, drawn from a very wide variety of sources, and often giving several different perspectives on the same events. These accounts are full of fascinating detail, and reveal societal attitudes in ways today's histories simply cannot match. Much of this primary material is otherwise awfully hard to find, and for anyone with more than a passing interest in the Indian wars of the Southwest it all constitutes an irresistably good read.
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Stretching from the Colorado River to the rugged mountains east of the Rio Grande, and from the great canyons of northern Arizona deep into the Mexican states of Chihuahua and Sonora, is the region once known as Apacheria. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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General Crook, San Carlos, Captain Crawford, New Mexico, Fort Bowie, United States, Sierra Madre, Fort Apache, White Mountain, General Carr, Captain Lawton, Third Cavalry, Fourth Cavalry, General Howard, Lieutenant Maus, Sixth Cavalry, Camp Grant, Camp Apache, General Miles, Department of Arizona, Guadalupe Canyon, Lieutenant Davis, San Pedro, Gila River, Ojo Caliente New!
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Stretching from the Colorado River to the rugged mountains east of the Rio Grande, and from the great canyons of northern Arizona deep into the Mexican states of Chihuahua and Sonora, is the region once known as Apacheria. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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General Crook, San Carlos, Captain Crawford, New Mexico, Fort Bowie, United States, Sierra Madre, Fort Apache, White Mountain, General Carr, Captain Lawton, Third Cavalry, Fourth Cavalry, General Howard, Lieutenant Maus, Sixth Cavalry, Camp Grant, Camp Apache, General Miles, Department of Arizona, Guadalupe Canyon, Lieutenant Davis, San Pedro, Gila River, Ojo Caliente New!
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